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This part of the CSH has always baffled me. The sign after the Vauxhall Bridge junction heading west indicates the cycle lane only applies 7-7 Mon-Fri (rush hours). Outside these times I assume it is ok for traffic to use the lane regardless of the solid line?

I've never understood this at all. If the single lane road is deemed adequate for the busiest times, why get rid of the cycle lane during the evenings and weekends when less cars means they wont need the other lane??? What if you fancied cycling into town with your family at the weekend? Madness.

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Is this a 9/10 speed freehub

Blimey, cycle that bit every commute (only once a week at the moment) and never noticed those bits were timed.

Agree it doesn't make sense.

I am building a 1x bike so the FD hanger and the FD cable exit are redundant .. they are 5 and 5.5mm respectively, anywhere I can get black rubber blanking grommet for these? ebay and amazon are failing me ..

You mean just to fill them in and prevent rust?
You can use bees wax for that.

and
http://www.grommets.co.uk/products/grommets/blind-rubber-grommets/

yeah something like this:

Its a carbon frame. Sugru is last resort.

wax is removable

Ah that place seems perfect, will need to see if they do small quantity.

It was 11pm free flowing traffic yet he was driving up the inside of the others. Is using the CSH in this way legal?

I take it this wasn't a segregated bit? Check the plates that are up by the side of the carriageway. Outside of the operating hours indicated there, any vehicle driver can use such facilities. You have the same thing with bus lanes. In practice, relatively few drivers know about this, but it doesn't surprise me that a taxi driver would know. Yes, it could be perfectly kosher.

Edit: Oops, only just saw Scrabble's post.

but, as mdcc_tester says: taxi.

That's often the only explanation needed.

No, that may well be nonsense in this case. Taxi drivers do some things wrong, but here they may well have been perfectly within their rights.

This part of the CSH has always baffled me. The sign after the Vauxhall Bridge junction heading west indicates the cycle lane only applies 7-7 Mon-Fri (rush hours). Outside these times I assume it is ok for traffic to use the lane regardless of the solid line?

Remember that the purpose of these facilities, in common with bus lanes, is to reserve space for more space-efficient modes in the morning peak hour, and to some extent in the (less concentrated) evening peak. This is because in London traffic flows are very unevenly concentrated, largely radially into a disproportionately small centre. Outside of peak hours, this constraint disappears.

I've never understood this at all. If the single lane road is deemed adequate for the busiest times, why get rid of the cycle lane during the evenings and weekends when less cars means they wont need the other lane??? What if you fancied cycling into town with your family at the weekend? Madness.

I believe (but would have to check this again) that you actually get higher motor traffic flows into Central London after the evening peak than in the morning peak, as you get the theatre crowd etc., often driving in (and many use taxis, minicabs, and appcabs*, of course). I remember being in W1 at 4am on the 'Those London Lights' ride in late 2008 and it was unbelievably busy, on a Saturday night to be fair, but it felt as if it was still early evening. In the morning peak, non-public motor traffic flows into Central London are actually quite low, as the overwhelmingly vast majority of commuters arrive by public transport.

* This is a word they use in India, and I really like it.

Kind of lol

The sign after the Vauxhall Bridge junction heading west indicates the cycle lane only applies 7-7 Mon-Fri (rush hours). Outside these times I assume it is ok for traffic to use the lane regardless of the solid line?

You can park on that bit after 7pm as the Red Route only operates from 7-7.

Best place to get a large quantity of Sisal rope?

Also, who is good at maths and can help me work out how much I need to wrap a drain pipe of a certain length?

210cm pipe, 6.8cm diameter

21.4cm circumference, 0.6cm rope would need 210/.6=350 turns at 21.4cm each=7490/100=75m?

The chandlery on Neal St?

Sounds reasonable to me. You have assumed you have a minimal helix angle, but that seems like a good assumption to make. I'd get yourself some spare too of course, just in case...

I bought 220m (!) from Rope Services UK, £60 for their 10mm, so I should have enough for three of Cat Pole v.2:

That's a lot of cat.

Beat me too it, cycle lane becomes carpark.

Does anyone have an outline sketch of a bike frame with lugs? I'm imagineering paint schemes for @Cycliste's new fixeh, and it'd be useful to do a quick MS Paint mock-up to show her how cool white lugs would look.

Anyone buy train tickets on their phone? Saw someone today with one, although there was some problem with it. I missed a train today because I forgot to buy a ticket changing from TfL to rail at Stratford and realised with only a few min to go. I wondered if I could've bought a ticket for the train on my phone in time? Or got one from the next station since i was still in London zones. Do they need to be validated at ticket barriers or do you just have to have it on you?